The Call has gone out for candidates to the 2018 Young Physician leaders Programme (YPL) to be held from 12 – 16 October 2018 in conjunction with the World health Summit.
Nominations will be accepted from members of the InterAcademy Partnership and the ‘M8 Alliance’ of ...

The seventh edition of the IAP Young Physician Leaders (YPL) leadership training workshop took place on the side of this year’s World Health Summit in Berlin. A new cohort of 22 YPL from 17 countries participated and then joined the alumni network that now counts more than 150 ...

Following the 2016 YPL call for proposals for the annual October leadership training workshop, 24 selected participants arrived in Berlin on 6 October 2016.
The programme began with a treasure hunt designed to break the ice and show the participants a tiny part of this ever-changing city. This ...

Dr.Damitha Gunawardane is a Public health Specialist and a consultant Community Physician in Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Following his MBBS degree (2007) he had successfully completed his MSc (2011) and MD (2015) in Community Medicine at Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He had work in all three levels of ...

Mohamed Abou El-Enein is Assistant Professor for Clinical Development of Regenerative Therapies and head of clinical development platform at Charité Medical University Berlin. He serves as a senior Teaching Assistant in clinical research at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor in Translational Medicine and Regulatory ...

Effective healthcare institutions need effective leaders.The issue of developing leadership qualities among health professionals, however, is often neglected, with many young professions having to learn their leadership skills almost by trial and error as they are handed positions of responsibility.
Although incorporating leadership training programmes into the medical curriculum is lately gaining in importance, in practice too few countries are actually providing such training (See, for example: Health Professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world).

Young Physician Leaders

Effective healthcare institutions need effective leaders.

The issue of developing leadership qualities among health professionals, however, is often neglected, with many young professions having to learn their leadership skills almost by trial and error as they are handed positions of responsibility.

Sessions have been held at each WHS since 2011. In addition, a regional event was organized at the Regional WHS in Singapore in 2013. A 5th year event for alumni was organized in May 2016 at the World Health Assembly.

To date, the IAP for Health YPL network of alumni includes more than 150 leading young professionals, under the age of 40, who were nominated by their national academies. Their details can be found in the dedicated YPL Directory.